December 26, 2012		India aims for world's big data Growing demand for big data skills will see companies looking to outsourcing to plug the gap, presenting opportunities for India. But, it must first address several fundamental challenges.
December 21, 2012		Two Chicago-area data companies predict big purchases of organic products and gift cards While shoppers make their last-minute dashes to grab Christmas deals this weekend, two Chicago-area data analytics companies foresee big purchases of organic products and gift cards.
December 08, 2012		The Data Route To Millions While graduating from the College of Business Studies, Delhi University, in 1990, Dhirendra Kumar discovered he had free time after classes.
November 19, 2012		Real-World Data Science Mukund Raghunath of consultancy Mu Sigma distinguishes muddy from clear data science challenges. The latter lend themselves to the traditional scientific problem-driven cycle of hypothesis, data, analyses. Muddy problems, in contrast, generally mandate discovery-driven solutions, with initial data observation needed to clarify business issues.
November 14, 2012		Why Social Media Analytics Matters Social networking communities cannot be set on auto-pilot and need to be well maintained. Here are a few steps to help businesses maximize the impact of social media postings and to utilize the data collected
November 13, 2012		Mu Sigma Continues Speaking Tour at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit Mu Sigma to Address How Analytically Savvy Organizations Incorporate Different Paradigms to Leverage Data in Innovative Ways to Create Game Changing Opportunities
November 09, 2012		Mu Sigma and SAS Institute Address Chief Executives at G100 Mu Sigma's Founder & CEO Dhiraj Rajaram and SAS's Co-Founder & CEO James Goodnight Advise a Global Audience of Key Business Leaders on Big Data and Its Impact on Business
November 05, 2012		Mu Sigma Invited to Speak at E2 Innovate Silicon Valley Big Data is creating big opportunities, enabling enterprises to find new ways to harness data to make decisions -- but harnessing it is extremely challenging. Fortunately, organizations now have access to the type of analytics horsepower that previously was only available via expensive, high-performance machines.
November 05, 2012		Number Nawabs "We look for raw talent and hire people with a background in economics and engineering, and MBAs. After the training, a recruit becomes a jack of all trades and master of some, combining the attributes of a business analyst, applied mathematician, and computer programmer," says Dhiraj Rajaram, founder of Mu Sigma.
October 08, 2012		Shopping or browsing on Main Street? India's Big Data firms know The business of storing, decoding and analysing unstructured data - think video, Facebook updates, Tweets, Internet searches and public cameras - along with mountains of facts and figures can help companies increase profits, cut costs and improve service, and is now one of the world's hottest industries.
October 04, 2012		Avoid data latency with Hadoop, Sears CTO says Shelley explains that Hadoop allows businesses to centralize all their data and analyze it immediately, decreasing data latency. He notes that for increased efficiency, companies could outsource their data to firms specializing in deeper analysis.
October 03, 2012		THE DIGITAL 100: The World's Most Valuable Private Tech Companies Mu Sigma uses technology and data to help businesses make better decisions. It raised $108 million last year and generated $63.2 million. This June, it passed the $100 million revenue mark. We assume it will finish the year strong and generate $200-250 million. We value Mu Sigma at $800 million, a 3-4X multiple of revenue
October 02, 2012		Decision Sciences Firm Mu Sigma is Named One of 75 Finalists for 11th Annual Chicago Innovation Awards The Chicago Innovation Awards, celebrating its 11th year, is the only organization in the country dedicated to honoring the most innovative new products or services brought to market or to public service from a specific region. This year nearly 400 nominations were received and 75 finalists were named. Mu Sigma was one of them.
October, 2012		Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century “Accenture, Deloitte, and IBM Global Services, are in the early stages of leading big data projects for their clients. The skills of the data scientists they do have on staff are mainly being applied to more-conventional quantitative analysis problems. Offshore analytics services firms, such as Mu Sigma, might be the ones to make the first major inroads with data scientists.”
September 30, 2012		India's analytics market will become $1.15 bn by 2015 Among the pure-play analytics vendors, Sequoia Capital and General Atlantic-invested Mu Sigma is said to be the biggest in this space. Besides, there are about 15 different companies such as AbsolutData, Fractal Analytics, ZS Associates, LatentView and Opera Solutions who are trying to position themselves in this market.
September 27, 2012		How India is building its analytics talent Analysts have to combine expertise in math - mostly statistics and probability, calculus and econometrics -- with business knowledge. While India's traditional strength in math makes available plenty of people with math skills, that does not automatically translate into analytic skills.
September 17, 2012		Recreating an Intimate Shopping Experience Through Data The advent of Big Data is allowing companies to get to know their customers and prospects and recreate the intimate shopping experience that was common in the past.
September 12, 2012		Mu Sigma CEO Dhiraj Rajaram Wins 2012 Gold Stevie Award for Executive of the Year; Mu Sigma Takes Bronze for Company of the Year "We are honored to have been recognized by the IBA as a leading global organization in the diversified services industry," said Dhiraj Rajaram, Founder & CEO, Mu Sigma. "Mu Sigma has been on the fast track and experiencing tremendous growth while working closely with many Fortune 500 companies to solve their Big Data needs.
September 05, 2012		Mu Sigma to unleash power of analytics for cricket teams Taking the right call on the cricketing field is always a challenge. If a certain decision makes the team snatch a victory from the jaws of defeat, then the credit goes to the captain and manager. And if it proves the other way round, they face the brickbats.
August 27, 2012		Decision Sciences Firm Mu Sigma Makes Inc. 5000 List of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies for Third Consecutive Year Mu Sigma Founder and CEO Dhiraj Rajaram attributes the company's triple-digit growth to its unique business model and the value it provides. "Clients tell us that Mu Sigma's solution quickly pays for itself," said Rajaram.
August 23, 2012		Data Development Gems – Software Developer’s Journal 05/2012 Detecting Structural Changes in Time Series Data Using R – Bharat Upadrasta, Prabakar Rajasekaran, Zubin Dowlaty
August 20, 2012		Mu Sigma Invited to Join Big Data Analytics Panel Discussion at VMworld(R) 2012 Mu Sigma (http://www.mu-sigma.com), the largest pure-play provider of decision sciences and analytics solutions for global enterprise customers, announced today that it has been invited to speak on a panel titled "Big Data and Big Analytics" at VMworld® 2012, taking place August 26-30, 2012, in San Francisco, CA. This year's conference will focus on showcasing what's next in IT tools and training to boost the new cloud era.
August 16, 2012		Mu Sigma surfs the big data wave "People are looking to make better decisions. The amount of data that is required to create this decision is exploding every day. To make this happen, one needs to have an inter-disciplinary talent of mathematics, business and technology. Every player wants to be able to do this but they do not see all these three things together."
August 15, 2012		Nurturing Talent Mu Sigma started what it calls the Mu Sigma University around the same time that Zoho did. The company, which helps clients analyse the massive quantities of data they deal with and arrive at decisions, needed people with analytical skills.
July 30, 2012		Mu Sigma offers a way to distill that sea of data Dhiraj Rajaram's big idea—which has attracted $150 million from venture investors—started out as a 300-word essay written when he was a young consultant fresh out of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.
July 22, 2012		Two-day conference on big data Bangalore-based tech event management firm HasGeek is organising a conference that focusses on the big data ecosystem in India on July 27 and 28.
July 18, 2012		Bringing up a business India and the Confederation of Indian Industry, The New Age Entrepreneurs, the first in a series of business books, was released recently.
July/August, 2012		Predictability of Time Series A statistical measure used to classify time series and infer the level of difficulty in predicting and choosing an appropriate model for the series at hand.
July 9, 2012		Mu Sigma Key Sponsor and Featured Speaker at 12th Annual Shopper Insights in Action Retail Conference 2012 Mu Sigma, the largest pure-play provider of decision sciences and analytics solutions for global enterprise customers, announced today that it is a key sponsor and speaker at the 12th Annual Shopper Insights in Action Conference, July 18-20, 2012, in Chicago, IL.
July 07, 2012		The New Work Ethic Mu Sigma, for instance, follows the Montessori approach where each individual is his own benchmark. “Instead of appraisals once or twice a year, we give regular feedback sessions every two months where the employee is assessed against himself. There is no constant comparison and at the same time, the employee knows what he needs to improve,” says Ambiga Dhiraj, head of talent management, Mu Sigma.
July 3, 2012		Size Matters: Big Data Booms With over 2.5 quintillion bytes being created every day, data has got very big indeed – and so has the commercial opportunity implied by such a vast repository of information. But what forms does this opportunity take – and who’s best placed to take advantage?
June 29, 2012		How to Mine Unstructured Data In 2003, Information Management published a series of articles, starting with a missive titled “The Problem with Unstructured Data.” In what seems to be a generation ago, the big problem identified was many tools and techniques’ inability to make sense of unstructured data. Not surprisingly, much has changed in the last decade.
June 20, 2012		Data Scientists for Hire: A Look at Mu Sigma's Consulting Model Advances in data-analytics technology over the past decade offer enterprises new opportunities to mine critical business intelligence in near real-time, giving them valuable insights into customer preferences and behavior and uncovering previously undetected relationships and trends.
June 12, 2012		Hadoop's Big Data Tamed by Teradata Aster's SQL-H Teradata Aster has launched a new tool which allows business analysts to work with Hadoop data through SQL query structures.
June 12, 2012		Mu Sigma Invited to Speak at Leading Industry Analytics Conferences Enterprise 2.0 and Predictive Analytics World Delivering Insight on Tools and Techniques for Visualizing Big Data; Microsoft and Mu Sigma Discuss Big Data Technologies and Predictive Analytics to Better Understand Customers
June 12, 2012		Mu Sigma Invited to Speak at Leading Industry Analytics Conferences Enterprise 2.0 and Predictive Analytics World Delivering Insight on Tools and Techniques for Visualizing Big Data; Microsoft and Mu Sigma Discuss Big Data Technologies and Predictive Analytics to Better Understand Customers
June 12, 2012		Mu Sigma Invited to Speak at Leading Industry Analytics Conferences Enterprise 2.0 and Predictive Analytics World Delivering Insight on Tools and Techniques for Visualizing Big Data; Microsoft and Mu Sigma Discuss Big Data Technologies and Predictive Analytics to Better Understand Customers
May/June, 2012		How to convert thought into action and bridge the gap between analytics creation and consumption According to a recent industry report [1], companies that invest in analytics have 33 percent higher revenue growth, 12 times more profit growth and 32 percent higher return on invested capital than their peers.
May 25, 2012		Do the math: It holds ticket to many high-flying jobs Do you like mathematics? The question evokes the strongest of reactions, especially in class 12 students who have just got their results. Either you love math or hate it-there is no middle path.
May 26, 2012		Analyse This Analytics was quite a buzzword. Then Brad Pitt made it even hotter with the Oscar-nominated Moneyball. The 2011 film tells the real-life story of Billy Beane, general manager of California based Oakland Athletics, whose team created an American league record by winning 20 consecutive games.
May 14, 2012		Mu Sigma CEO Dhiraj Rajaram Named an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012 Finalist in the Midwest Mu Sigma CEO and Founder Dhiraj Rajaram has been named a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012 program in the Midwest. The award recognizes outstanding entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.
May 14, 2012		BI evolving to be more personal, social and mobile With data growing exponentially, there is greater pressure on organizations to analyze the data and extract meaningful information, instead of just storing it. This challenge of analyzing huge amount of data, fashionably known as Big Data, is forcing enterprises to look at new ways of accessing or deploying BI.
May 8, 2012		Analytics Solutions Provider Mu Sigma Named "Cool Vendor" by Leading Analyst Firm Mu Sigma, the largest pure-play provider of decision sciences and analytics solutions for global enterprise customers, announced today that it has been included in the "Cool Vendors in Business Process Services, 2012(1)" report recently published by Gartner, Inc., highlighting innovative, emerging players in this market.
Apr 16, 2012		Mu Sigma Is Interested in a Long-Term Relationship with You With over 1,500 analytic professionals on staff, Chicago-based Mu Sigma boasts what has to be one of the largest collection of Data Scientists under one roof. Putting together and maintaining such a large group is no small task, considering the worldwide dearth of (and high demand for) Data Scientists.
April 16, 2012		Decision Sciences and Analytics Solutions Firm Mu Sigma a Silver Sponsor for Forrester's Marketing Leadership Forum 2012 Mu Sigma (http://www.mu-sigma.com), the largest pure-play provider of decision sciences and analytics solutions for global enterprise customers, announced today that it is a Silver Sponsor of the upcoming Forrester Marketing Leadership Forum, taking place in Los Angeles April 18-19, 2012.
April 16, 2012		Symbiotic Duality of Learning: Holmes & Columbus, Not Holmes vs. Columbus In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, the Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman writes that the human cognitive machine has developed two systems of thinking. System 1 is intuitive and fast but prone to cognitive bias, while System 2 is analytical and slow but prone to “analysis paralysis.” Making effective decisions requires both types of thinking, along with the ability to know and decide which system to override and which to use in a given situation.
April 5, 2012		Math can be fun to learn Mu Sigma is a leading decision sciences and analytics services company committed to help businesses make data-driven decision-making. “We at Mu Sigma, integrate the disciplines of Math + business + technology to solve high-impact business problems.
March 22, 2012		Why big data needs real-time intelligent systems Zubin Dowlaty was watching the movie the Fifth Element when he saw the future of real-time intelligence laid out in a pithy quote: "Anticipation denotes intelligence." Dowlaty, vice president and head of innovation and development of analytics-outsourcing firm Mu Sigma, said that's what companies need to be striving for and in this era of big data, the barriers to achieving that have fallen away.
March 16, 2012		Dhiraj Rajaram, Chairman & CEO, Mu Sigma emerges as the contrarian entrepreneur in the big data industry He is the outlier in an industry where most peers have built companies and sold them in a short span of time. In choosing to buck this trend, Dhiraj Rajaram has marked himself out as the contrarian entrepreneur in the big data industry.
March 16, 2012		How firms like Sportingmindz, IBM, Mu Sigma, Activecubes helping cricketers win matches, predict crime and track spurious drugs In front of a frenzied crowd in the flood-lit Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, Royal Challengers captain Anil Kumble made a bold move. In the final match of the second season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 Championship, Kumble, a leg spinner, bowled the first ball of the match, a task normally undertaken by a fast bowler.
March 14, 2012		Take advantage of each part of the LSP ratio I call myself an entrepreneur by accident. I started Mu Sigma as a 28-year-old with a vision to build the world's largest decision sciences company.
March 14, 2012		Eat, date, ring your humble Pi How would a Greek-lettered company called Mu Sigma treat mundane March 14? It has gone all-out to celebrate Pi Day. That's 3.14, the month-first way some parts of the world write the date.
March 9, 2012		Montessori: It's good for business An interesting post from Harvard Business Review's blogs, written by Ambiga Dhiraj of Mu Sigma in Chicago. Her company is revamping professional development in the image of...Montessori education. If you don't know about Montessori, here's a good primer.
March, 2012		Mu Sigma Customer Summit 2012 - A Report Mu Sigma hosted its Fourth Annual Customer Summit at the grand Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay, California on 26th and 27th February, 2012. This was the first time the Customer Summit had been held outside Mu Sigma's home city of Chicago, and the picturesque coastal town did not disappoint.
February 15, 2012		Big Data Specialist Draws Big Clients, Big VC Funding Mu Sigma, a big data analytics specialist firm providing data scientists to companies including major insurers, Microsoft, Dell and Walmart, has attracted more than $133 million in venture capital funding. This hefty sum for a company whose resources walk out the door every night shows how it is meeting a vital business need — analysts who can work effectively with big data.
February 5, 2012		Master of data universe The black Land Rover makes its way to a muddy lane in Brookefield, a suburb in Bangalore, stopping at a nondescript complex full of shops and a tiny restaurant, Punjabi Tadka. Dhiraj Chidambaram Rajaram, Founder and CEO of analytics firm Mu Sigma, steps out of the driver's seat, makes his way to the eatery, settling down around a plastic table with three colleagues.
January 25, 2012		Develop Leaders the Montessori Way When it comes to employee development, most companies traditionally follow the 10/80/10 rule: The top 10 percent are promoted, the middle 80 percent are nurtured and the bottom 10 percent are let go.
January 18, 2012		New hub for tech startups debuts With high-profile successes such as Groupon Inc., which went from idea to huge IPO in three years, the city's tech scene is on a roll. Mu Sigma Inc. raised $133 million in the past year; GrubHub Inc. has raised $70 million.
January 10, 2012		Big money bets on business intelligence Mu Sigma, which crunches data for Fortune 500 companies such as Wal-Mart, Dell and Microsoft, has raised $108 million in venture capital, marking what experts believe is one of the largest investments ever in the data analytics industry.
January 06, 2012		Data analytics firm raises $108m Mu Sigma, a data analytics consulting company, says it has raised $108 million from venture capitalists, marking one of the largest investments in the fast-growing analytics business, The Wall Street Journal reports.
January 04, 2012		So, What's Your Algorithm? We are ruined by our own biases. When making decisions, we see what we want, ignore probabilities, and minimize risks that uproot our hopes.

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